Samhain\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Harvest Moon<\/p>\n
So.\u00a0 Election day is over; the rascals have been thrown out and the new rascals will soon take their places in the halls of Congress and the Minnesota Legislature.\u00a0 This is an opportunity to develop the bipartisan nature of environmental issues, since preservation and conservation are not, intrinsically, related to party.\u00a0 Theodore Roosevelt, the ur-conservationist from a political perspective, was a Republican.\u00a0 Economic justice issues will become more sharply defined and the outlines of a new liberal majority still remains a mystery.\u00a0 Politics has one guarantee, change.<\/p>\n
( bloodletting in politics is not new.)<\/p>\n
I choose not\u00a0 to\u00a0 feel dejected, rejected or powerless in light of these results, instead those issues in which I believe need us more than ever.<\/p>\n
On a brighter note, today I’m back to translating Ovid.\u00a0 I’m 30 verses in to what I believe is about 15,000.\u00a0 Almost there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Samhain\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Harvest Moon So.\u00a0 Election day is over; the rascals have been thrown out and the new rascals will soon take their places in the halls of Congress and the Minnesota Legislature.\u00a0 This is an opportunity to develop the bipartisan nature of environmental issues, since preservation and conservation are not, intrinsically, related to party.\u00a0 … Continue reading A Changed Political Terrain<\/span>